NPR special series: "I-95: The Road Most Travelled"

[ttownfeen]

I thought you guys might be interested in listening/reading this special series from NPR News about Interstate 95.  It runs through Labor Day.

Interstate 95 may be one of the least romantic roads ever built. But what it lacks in beauty, it makes up for in utility. How has this asphalt Amazon transformed the economy of the Eastern Seaboard?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129278775

[ShawnP]

I salute Florida and Georgia for doing the heavy lifting and upgrading their portions thru the years. A big Bronx cheer to South and North Carolina for ignoring their portions and never reinvesting their gas money recieved from I-95 travelers back into the road. I know about the ten mile portion around Florence, South Carolina but nothing else as I-95 is still in it's original 60's and 70's shape elsewhere in North Carolina and South Carolina.

[Grzrd]

I thought you guys might be interested in listening/reading this special series from NPR News about Interstate 95.  It runs through Labor Day.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129278775

Thanks for great initial post!  I look forward to hearing/reading this series.

I salute Florida and Georgia for doing the heavy lifting and upgrading their portions thru the years.

I have not driven GA I-95 since March. At that time it looked like widening project from Brunswick/Exit 38 northward for several miles was close to being finished.  North of there, in McIntosh County, it looked like it would take longer.  Same for Exit 38 southward.  Any updates?

[ShawnP]

I have heard that all funding had been recieved and actual construction was well along enough to be done by some time in 2011.

[architect77]

North Carolina will keeping neglecting I-95 unless out-of-state motorists are willing to foot the entire $6 billion needed for improvements, since they are the primary users.